Volume 3 3rd Trailhead – 1st Trail – 2nd Track – 1st Checkpoint – 2nd Path – 3rd Station

We are now at the third station of Genesis 22:18.

The verse is set in the context of God taking an oath to fulfill the Abrahamic Covenant after Abraham obeyed God to sacrifice Isaac.  This is a hyperbole or an exaggerated example of faith.  God did not allow Abram to actually kill Isaac but Himself provided a sacrifice, pointing to Jesus Christ.

However, the object lesson here is that when you trust someone completely, you would stand by that person no matter what happens.  I heard a sermon once which said that of all the people you know, 25% will be for you no matter what.  At the other end of the spectrum is another 25% who will be against you as if it is their mission in life.  In between these two ends are divided equally between those who are initially for you but can be easily swayed otherwise and vice versa.

To cite a not so holy example.  An impotent husband can never commit adultery with the physical body.  Even when rumours are rife that the husband has been unfaithful, the wife knows something about her husband that others do not.  Hence, the wife can completely trust her husband to be faithful with his physical body.  The wife would have reacted in the same way Sarah did as recorded in Genesis 18:12, “So Sarah laughed to herself when she heard the Lord’s words, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure and delight, my husband being also old?”^”  In our example, the wife would be laughing her socks off saying, “How can my husband ever be unfaithful when it is impossible for him to rise to the occasion?”

In the same manner, we know that it is impossible for God to lie as written in Numbers 23:19 and Hebrews 6:18.  Therefore, even when Satan has orchestrated circumstances contradictory to what God has promised, we know for sure that God will deliver what He promised no matter what the circumstances are saying otherwise.  Abraham demonstrated this integrity of God as recorded in Romans 4:20-21 of the Easy-to-Read Version Bible.  Stones might be hurled at me for drawing such a comparison but it serves the purpose and that is more important.  The point here is that we can trust God with our lives.